I'm telling you. If you are playing the game right, that's how your list supposed to be. (I know... How's Maya there? She's still attractive for me and I still can't forget first 3 ep)
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I too want to do a recap with the LIs, in alphabetical order:
Bella: her story started off really bad, until the fourth chapter it was quite heavy for me to keep up with her, the constant "harassment", crying and running away (with the icing on the cake of the dark prophecy of the library) are not for me. but i must be honest and say that from the fourth chapter onwards there has been a continuous improvement with the only flaw that everyone continues to pretend that the fact that she is married is a secondary problem (although the scene in the bathroom at her first date makes me think that James is dead ... but we'll see). now she is one of the characters with whom it is more fun to interact and aesthetically for me has always been the top, including exaggerations.
Jill: it's hard for me to give an honest judgement on Jill, if i consider the blackmail i can consider her dead (at least cerebrally), but in the end the blackmail is just a pustule, so fake that you can practically ignore it with a little amnesia in chapter 6 (the Jill part of that chapter in my opinion is terrible from beginning to end). she remains a character out of context, her story is very little intertwined with the rest of the events, but overall i don't mind, Italy is full of Jill.... the interactions with her are always very intimate, perhaps overly romantic but pleasant. and now she has also completely freed herself from the burden of her virginity. her story at the moment is a blank sheet of paper yet to be written, so far I don't see how the issue of family connections can be really significant (ok, Lynette knew either Lana or Jill's mother, so what?) I am very curious about her future
Josy: bad bad bad. for charity great sex scenes, but an impact in the story that is comparable to the pink rose girls, the difference is that with her you don't pay... her story had a shock in the seventh chapter, but it's all back in. surely she is the LI who shows the most affinity towards MC, but all this affinity has no way to vent because any other plot has the upper hand on her. she is the most sidegirl among the LIs
Maya: very similar to Jill in the interactions with MC, very defined, the only character who remembers what Quinn did, besides Tommy, which makes her completely anomalous in the narrative... in the judgment on her it weighs heavily that DPC uses her as the architrave of the plot, practically all the chapter endings are centered on her, regardless of the "emotional" involvement with MC. this overexposure is detrimental to a character that in its fragility is at least consistent. now i hope that Sage has been told everything she needed to be told, and that there will not be a new moment of partial revelations, and therefore useless, moreover i doubt that the meeting with Burke will be decisive, so the question of her tuition and the free one promised by Quinn will continue to keep us company
Sage: if i were MC i wouldn't give up on her for a moment, but if i were a friend of Mc i would tell him to stay away from her, since it compromises his mental health, the last two chapters are incomprehensible, with useless complications that are then dropped without any problem. also the fact that we discover that she is always and anyway interested in MC, a bit devalues her, it makes her too "begging for affection". and unfortunately the worst for her is yet to come, every black cloud on the horizon has a lightning bolt pointing to her. Maya in the worst case scenario has to choose between Josy and college (this year), Sage has already lost the one who was the love of her life, and from here on she could lose everything else, but everything. it's a moral duty to stay close to her, for the joys she gave us in the first 6 chapters.
putting them in order:
Sage: first but with less gap than she had before
Bella, Jill (without blackmail) and Maya: behind with maybe Bella slightly ahead
Josy: waiting for DPC to decide what to do with her
Jill (with blackmail): in the back digging, waiting for admission
